From: nojunk AT clear DOT net DOT nz (Gary Shingles (vig))
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Newbie Q: DOS Lib3D make problem(s)
Date: 10 Apr 1997 00:50:28 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970409131228 DOT 3639E-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>On 8 Apr 1997, Gary Shingles wrote:
>> Another possible cause is the Makefile being in Unix text file format in the
>> .tar.gz archive.  That can cause considerable problems with MS-DOS make
>> utilities.
>
>This is incorrect, at least as far as DJGPP's Make is considered: it
>can handle Unix- and DOS-style text files alike.  In fact, any program
>written in C will treat both styles the same, unless it insists on
>reading Makefiles in binary mode.

It must have been the version of GNU Make for DOS I used to use. (3.something).
(Maybe I compiled it from my Linux sources?)

I use rhide now, it's very good.  (aside: How's the Linux version going?)

Thanks for your info Eli, you look like a very busy person. :-)

-- 
Gary